The Shenmue Campaign

[Augustus Caesar]

For many years the news regarding Shenmue and its creator, Yu Suzuki, have been hazy at best. In an almost sudden outburst of news regarding Shenmue - With GameReactor claiming a Wii version of the games being made and Simon Jeffery saying Yu suzuki is no longer is a part of SEGA - Thankfully the latter turned out to be false.

Shenmue III is SEGAs most fan requested game. Obviously, asking SEGA nicely to make it hasn't worked out. We now have to demand it. Although we condemn threats, we do suggest that some mild harassment is in order. Our main plan is to make a billboard and posters that will be visible around Tokyo before, during and after Tokyo Game Show 09. Posters will be on the streets outside SEGAs main office and a billboard outside TGS center. The goal is for SEGA to take notice, something they obviously haven't done. We are imagining that SEGA employees will see them and will there for start talking for them selves. No doubt, the executives will see/hear this and at least prompt a reaction.

Our goal is also to get the mainstream gaming media to take notice, as this is more then likely the biggest gaming collaboration to revive a series. As some may know, the good guys at EDGE magazine - arguably the biggest gaming mag in the world - are huge Shenmue fans. Our hopes are that they will help us.

Mainly we need your help through donations and buying merchandise. Every single penny donated will go to the goal, for ever merchandise bought, 1- 2 dollars will go to the campaign - We are selling these almost at production price.

Are there any other ways you can get involved? Yes, its simple. There are many different ways you can help.

Join the the campaign!
Head over to shenmuecampaign.org and sign up for updates and more.

Xbox 360
Over at www.xbox.com (the official xbox site) they are currently asking the community to suggest Xbox Live Originals games for download. Shenmue is currently the most requested. This is a key chance to get our message across to SEGA and Microsoft. If there is one thing they understand, its money. They see the huge potensial sales numbers. So how can you help? Go to their message board and write a post in the Shenmue Thread, "We demand Shenmue!".

You can also add "We Want Shenmue III" on you gamer card motto!

Sign the petition!
Online petitions are widely regarded as a bit of a joke but it's a well known fact that Yu Suzuki himself mentioned this very petition in an interview which makes the online petition the top of our to do list, Please Sign it and show your support!

Petition


WE WANT YOUR SUGGESTIONS, SEND US A MAIL, POST ON THE FORUM.
HEAD OVER TO THE SHENMUECAMPAIGN.ORG FOR MORE WAYS TO HELP!


As for our first order of business. We want you to write a letter, a note, a one liner or what ever to us. Pictures are welcome. We will also try to get the people who made shenmue what it is to contribute, such as Corey Marshall.

We will print all the letters and pictures and send the same letters every single month, the same date for a year, to SEGA.
Just send us an email, and we will do the rest. To no cost of the Campaign. All out of personal funds.

The time is right to actually push this through. Please, if there is one time we could really force this through and work together. It is now. We don't want Shenmue, WE DEMAND IT!

Sincerly,
The Shenmue Campaign

www.shenmuecampaign.org



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[The HuBBs]

oi not this bullshit again. yu suzuki is not with sega so now there is 0% chance of there ever being a shenmue 3. Not that there was a chance to begin with considering that sega doesn't give a flying fuck about their fans anymore.

[BenoitRen]

Does it really matter if he's with Sega anymore or not? He's still in contact with them as a creative officer. That's something.

Chrono Trigger is one of the best video games ever, and Hori (of Dragon Quest fame) worked on it as a contractor.

And this whole "petitions don't work" shit is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Of course it won't work if you keep spouting this.

[The HuBBs]

There's only one company that listend to a petition and that was bioware, after asking what their fans think about havinga collectors edition for jade empire.

BTW Hori was nothing more than the man who design the characters for chrono trigger and nothing else. He's a manga artist for crying outloud.

[Augustus Caesar]

oi not this bullshit again. yu suzuki is not with sega so now there is 0% chance of there ever being a shenmue 3. Not that there was a chance to begin with considering that sega doesn't give a flying * about their fans anymore.

What in the hell? Just you saying that totally discounts your entire post, showing that you didn't even read the article. It says right there that Suzuki is STILL WITH SEGA. Stuff like this has done wonders before, don't count this out. If you don't like it, then fine, but at least try a more intelligent and/or constructive response instead of the crap you just spouted out.

[BenoitRen]

There's only one company that listend to a petition and that was bioware, after asking what their fans think about havinga collectors edition for jade empire.

Wrong. Phantasy Star Online Ver.2 was released in Europe for the Dreamcast thanks to a petition.

BTW Hori was nothing more than the man who design the characters for chrono trigger and nothing else. He's a manga artist for crying outloud.

Wrong again. Akira Toriyama designed the characters and is a manga artist. Hori wrote the initial version of the story and supervised the project.

[IndispensablePeaGuy]

I don't really care if they make another sequel or not because Shenmue was boring to me.